OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #745364
SKYLIGHT,HEAD,FALL,CONCRETE,WORK SURFACE
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED IN FALL THROUGH SKYLIGHT
Investigation abstract
At approximately 2:00 p.m. on April18, 1989, Employee #1, a laborer-helper, and ployee #1 was on the roof applying pressure to the rope, fell through a skylight to a concrete floor, and was killed. Employee #2, a foreman, for Primo Electric Company started to remove an old sign from the face of the building. The bottom two screws were removed and the power was shut off by Employee #2 from a bucket truck. Realizing how heavy the sign w as, a metal chain was attached to two eye hooks on the top of the sign. Employee #1 went up onto the roof of the building and lowered a heavy rope borrowed from Heidler Roofing Company down to Employee #2 who was in the bucket truck where h e hooked it to the chain. Employee #2 went up onto the roof and secured the rope and returned to the bucket, then removed the other two screws from the sign. Em
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 39 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 865
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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